Csaba Molnár

Csaba Molnár
Csaba Molnár; MEP
Member of the European Parliament
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 July 2014
Constituency	Hungary
Minister of the Prime Minister's Office
	In office; 20 April 2009 – 29 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Bajnai
Personal details
Born	4 December 1975; Csorna, Hungary
Political party	Hungarian:; Democratic Coalition; EU:; Party of European Socialists
Spouse(s)	Kinga Szűcs
Children	András

Csaba Molnár (born 4 December 1975) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Hungary. He is a member of the Democratic Coalition. He served as Minister of Transport, Communications and Energy in the second cabinet of Ferenc Gyurcsány, later as a Minister of the Prime Minister's Office (Minister of Chancellery) in the government of Gordon Bajnai.

Political career

Molnár was a part of Gyurcsány's inner circle in the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP). As a result, he joined Democratic Coalition Platform founded by the former prime minister and became its deputy chairman. When the platform split from the Socialists on October 22, 2011 he joined to newly formed party and left the MSZP and its parliamentary group.[1] He was appointed leader of the parliamentary group,[2] however according to the decision of the Constitutional and Procedural Committee, the Democratic Coalition could not form an own parliamentary group because of the parliamentary house rules.[3] Molnár was elected one of the four deputy chairmen of the Democratic Coalition on November 6, 2011.[4]

He participated in a week-long hunger strike, along with three other members of the Democratic Coalition (party leader Gyurcsány, Péter Niedermüller and István Kolber) which started in Kossuth tér on 9 September 2012. The demonstration, called Seven Days for Free Elections, was a protest against the proposed voter registration plan by ruling party Fidesz.[5]

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present

Molnár was elected to the European Parliament during the 2014 European election. He has since been serving on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's shadow rapporteur on renewable energy.

In addition to his committee assignments, Molnár is a member of the parliament's delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Personal life

He is married to Kinga Szűcs. They have a son, András.

References

A Demokratikus Koalíció bejelentette a frakcióalapítást, index.hu, 23 October 2011; accessed 7 November 2011 (in Hungarian)
Demokratikus Koalíció néven új pártot alapít Gyurcsány Ferenc Archived 2011-10-24 at the Wayback Machine, inforadio.hu, 22 October 2011; accessed 8 November 2011 (in Hungarian)
Parliamentary committee tells Gyurcsány to wait until April to form new faction Archived 2017-09-03 at the Wayback Machine, politics.hu, 8 November 2011; accessed 8 November 2011
Gyurcsányt választotta pártelnöknek a Demokratikus Koalíció, origo.hu, 6 November 2011; accessed 8 November 2011 (in Hungarian)
"Former PM Gyurcsány on week-long hunger strike over Fidesz voter registration plan". Archived from the original on 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2012-09-18.

External links

Biográf ki kicsoda (Budapest, 2003)
Hivatalos életrajza az MSZP honlapján

Political offices
Preceded by Pál Szabó	Minister of Transport, Communications and Energy 2008–2009	Succeeded by Péter Hónig
Preceded by Péter Kiss	Minister of Prime Minister's Office 2009–2010	Succeeded by Mihály Varga
Preceded by Ádám Ficsor	Minister of Civilian Intelligence Services Acting 2009	Succeeded by Gábor Juhász

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[1] A Demokratikus Koalíció bejelentette a frakcióalapítást, index.hu, 23 October 2011; accessed 7 November 2011 (in Hungarian)

[2] Demokratikus Koalíció néven új pártot alapít Gyurcsány Ferenc Archived 2011-10-24 at the Wayback Machine, inforadio.hu, 22 October 2011; accessed 8 November 2011 (in Hungarian)

[3] Parliamentary committee tells Gyurcsány to wait until April to form new faction Archived 2017-09-03 at the Wayback Machine, politics.hu, 8 November 2011; accessed 8 November 2011

[4] Gyurcsányt választotta pártelnöknek a Demokratikus Koalíció, origo.hu, 6 November 2011; accessed 8 November 2011 (in Hungarian)

[5] "Former PM Gyurcsány on week-long hunger strike over Fidesz voter registration plan". Archived from the original on 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2012-09-18.